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Dr. Al-fatah Stewart D.D. Sullivan C.F. po box-116 Fallsburg, N.Y. 12733 Justice does not exist In America, justice is like the mythical unicorn, everyone has heard of one but who has actually ever seen one? Mistakes do happen, some are honest ones and some are not. The wealthy in this country, enjoy protection but many people are wrongfully convicted, wrongfully judged and punished. The most adversely affected are poor black and Hispanic people. The police lie and falsify evidence, prosecutors move to ward off legal challenges and once they secure a conviction, the prosecutors consider it a badge of honor to achieve what many believe is impossible; To unjustly convict an innocent person. They then state that they won!, rather than state that justice was served, thus treating the justice system as if it is a big game, where the prosecution team, battles against the defense team, who is fighting to save a persons life and freedom and the judge is the referee, instead of treating this system like what it was designed to be; a tool to be used to ensure justice by condemning the guilty and freeing the innocent. Judges uphold the rulings of other judges, which makes it even more difficult for a wrongfully convicted person to prove his or her innocence and get justice. Countless people have been wrongfully executed under the death penalty and even in some rare cases, where the person is proven innocent after he or she has been killed cold blooded by the state. Where is the justice in that? There is no appeal from death! Even for those who do not face the death penalty, yet who are wrongfully convicted, but when a new trial or a reversal of their conviction, proving that they are innocent, justice still does not exist because they can't get back the time they spent in the deepest darkest corner of hell, surrounded by serial killers, rapists, child molesters, sexual predators that rape men, gangs and racist sadistic prison guards. The nonexistence of justice carries serious consequences whenever the deprivation of liberty is at stake. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". Punishment of the innocent makes the purest mockery of the law. A wrongful conviction serves as a microcosm of what goes on every day in the administration of justice. Sometimes one case can prove a pandora's box, exposing deep seated problems, wide spread corruption, inexcusable practices and systemic abuses, like the Jabbar Collins case as a perfect example (923 F. Supp. 2d 462). In pursuit of this mythical thing called justice, a person cannot battle a system that rules that a claim of actual innocence is not itself a constitutional claim. According to judge William Rehnquest, of the United States Supreme Court, "Innocence is not a concern of the federal courts". Which means that a person convicted in a state court can bring a claim in federal court that the trial had been unfair in its procedure but not in its results. In contrast, Amadou Diallo, was shot and killed by the police and not one police officer went to prison for this murder of a innocent law abiding citizen. The young Treyvon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman, and this killer walked away free after taking the life of an innocent child of God. The adorable Andy Lopez, savagely gunned down by police before he even reached puberty and no one has paid for the crime against another one of God's children, and no justice comes to the loved ones left with this empty space in their hearts. They say it is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. It is this very same sentiment that gave voice to the justiciable pronouncement that, "It is better to let ten guilty people escape than one innocent suffer". (Sir William Blackstone") In the face of that time worn precept, it seems inimical, if not out right contradictory, to contemplate whether murder, however foul, could ever justify the possibility, however remote, of wrongful convictions. (people v. Shuler, Ind. 2770191. NYLJ 3/4/02; p.28 Col. 2). From the arrival of the European colonizers to North America in the 15th century and continuing to date, Native American people, Black people, Hispanic people, 'all my people', within the United States have been victims of injustices by repressive policies and practices, perpetrated in blatant and shockingly cold disregard for human and legal rights and fundamental freedoms as defined by law. The remedy for this problem which would bring out true justice, is to rewrite the United Stated Constitution because it was never written to include us, The Natives, Blacks, and Hispanics, and have the new constitution enforced by God fairing incorruptible people of all nationalities, who will remove all guns and illegal drugs from society and truly establish an education system that will educate our children with truth and only then will justice ever exist. No Guns + No Drugs + real Education = Justice Dr. Al-fatah Stewart D.D. Oct. 6th 2014 Sullivan C. F. po box-116 Fallsburg, N.Y. 12733
